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Re-enchanting the Human in the Age of AI: 5 Irreplaceable Human Beings

ByRichelle SteynJul 25, 20254 mins

What AI can simulate, these humans embody: fragility, risk, truth, and sacred meaning.

Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy

ByRichelle SteynJun 23, 202516 mins

“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and…

Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space

ByRichelle SteynJun 9, 20254 mins

“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”

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The Yuga Labs Business Model & the 2024 Super Punk World Collection Wobble

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Yuga Labs and their Yuga Ecosystem is a start-up success story. Is this a USA-specific once-off, or is Yuga’s success based on sustainable web3 foundations that can inform start-ups in other parts of the globe? Let’s look at their business model.

What happened to Invictus Capital, their NFT Lab and CEO Daniel Schwartzkopff?

ByRichelle SteynAug 10, 20234 mins
In April 2022, just after the Out Of Africa NFT Collection was auctioned on OpenSea, the founder and CEO of Invictus Capital, Daniel Schwartzkopff was forced to tender his resignation during an Invictus board meeting. Invictus Capital is a regulated asset manager and crypto fund provider, and the Invictus NFT Lab a blockchain-based platform to […]

Dream Technologies and Ancestral Images: Reimagining Digital Art as Cultural Repair

ByRichelle SteynNov 25, 20257 mins
“Nice Aunties’ work hints at a future for digital art that is more human, more ritualised, and more ancestrally grounded. Cobb and Slattery provide the philosophical scaffolding; Khoi and San traditions offer the ethical and imaginal inheritance; dream technologies, fictional or real, show how images are medicine. What emerges is a powerful proposition: digital art can become a contemporary dream cave—an imaginal commons for healing, memory, and cultural repair.”
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